Sentences with phrase «of robot arms»

Most of the time she wanks away, like one of her robot arms, at student politics.
It does this by measuring the force and motion of the wearer's arms and using those measurements to control the action of a pair of robot arms; a computer keeps the robotic force at a constant multiple of the human one and transmits appropriate feedback to the wearer.
In principle, the improved decoder can be applied to other BCI tasks such as three - dimensional control of a robot arm or even a person's own electronically reanimated arm or hand.
As it turned out, the animals were able to control the movements of the robot arm in three dimensions to reach for a piece of food.
The researchers have yet to see signs of learning behavior in the neurons, but Bakkum plans to improve the mechanics of the robot arm to enhance its copying abilities.
Launched in 2001 with the rest of the robot arm, the original latches were showing their age.
Brawl, it starred a hulking cyborg known as M - 09 as he made his way through a series of robots armed with only one weapon: a titanic hammer that smashed robots as easily as it smashed everything else.
With multiple sequels and iterations down the line, the Bionic Commando has proven himself over the years to be one of gaming's oldest and most iconic bad asses, and damn does he rock the hell out of that robot arm.

Not exact matches

After local anesthetic has been applied, the robot arm comes in and plucks a crop of hairs.
The military of the future could use armed drones and robots to fight the enemy.
One of the things that stood out for me in regards to the report were the claims that robots won't be able to differentiate between an armed soldier and an innocent girl holding an ice cream cone.
The middle of that frame seemed a natural place to mount the screen that would facilitate interacting with the robot, but the team found that the moving arms often blocked the view of the screen.
She considers Nest Labs» Internet - connected thermostats as being a type of robot that can sense changes in its environment like rising temperature and then make adjustments based on a person's personal habits, even though those thermostats don't have arms or heads like people expect robots to have.
A lot of those jobs could be handled by a robot with a dexterous arm.
Armed flying drones have been taking to the skies in Afghanistan and Iraq for the better part of a decade, while Israel is currently using armed ground robots such as the Guardium, likely in its current conflict in Armed flying drones have been taking to the skies in Afghanistan and Iraq for the better part of a decade, while Israel is currently using armed ground robots such as the Guardium, likely in its current conflict in armed ground robots such as the Guardium, likely in its current conflict in Gaza.
Boston Dynamics has produced a number of robots that mimic human and animal movement, including Atlas, a humanoid model that co-ordinates motion and balance using its arms and legs and can pick itself up off the ground when knocked over.
He highlighted a «ridiculous» attempt to use a vision system and robot arm to install fiberglass mats on top of battery packs.
A Kuka technician programs a robot arm of German industrial robot maker Kuka at the company's stand during the Hannover Fair in Hanover, Germany, April 25, 2016.
Second, it might create someone who wants revenge, it might also deter a crapload more people from taking up arms if they know that a random robot can fly over and bomb the crap out of the them.
- Omron will debut its Quattro Delta robot on stand B34, demonstrating the world's fastest and first four - arm Delta robot, with a pick rate of 300 parts per minute.
I don't really know anything about anime, but every time I watch Ace Sanders here (and I've watched this, like, 40 times, easy), I think about one of those anime scenes where the guy with the dinosaur hair has his arm explode and turn into an even bigger arm that's actually a nuclear bomb and there's all this FLASHING and SQUEALING going on and a factory turns into a robot that knows how to turn its arms into nuclear bombs and the backgrounds are all just PINK SPEED LINES and nothing makes any sense and everyone's SCREAMING.
The researchers scattered parts of a STEFAN - style IKEA chair around industrial robot arms, parallel grippers and force - detecting sensors — using two of each to mimic the hands and arms humans would use for such a task.
Such robotic arms with human - like richness of touch are also being used to perform complex tasks in surgical robots, rescue, services and industry.»
There was none of the violent motion you would see in an earthquake, but those robot arms carried the same force as a quake would.
A subclass of humanoid, these robots may have extra-long arms, knees that bend backwards, or tracks for arms.
Evidence that simple functions can be composed to produce the higher capabilities of nervous systems comes from programs that read, recognize speech, guide robot arms to assemble tight components by feel, classify chemicals by articial smell and taste, reason about abstract matters, and so on.
Feynman dreamed of robotic arms that would assemble ever - smaller versions of themselves until they could place individual atoms like bricks in a wall (doomsayers have responded with the nightmare version: self - replicating tiny robots dissolving the world into «gray goo»).
It's also why the SSCO has outfitted a warehouse - like structure at the edge of the Goddard campus with robot arms and mock - up satellite parts.
Operating from a control room in Houston, they directed a nearly 60 - foot - long, Canadian - built robotic arm to grab a smaller, two - armed robot called Dextre, before moving it into position in front of a washing machine - size module attached to the station.
The researchers then added another layer of complexity: a second, autonomous drumstick on the robot arm (see photo).
The Canadian - built Dextre, a two - armed robot aboard the International Space Station, could be a predecessor to a fleet of robots capable of repairing defunct orbiting satellites.
Then, instead of sending neural signals from the animal's brain to a robot, he shunts them back into the muscles of the paralyzed arm, thereby bypassing the spinal cord.
When the hydrogen peroxide washes over flecks of platinum embedded within the octobot, the resulting chemical reaction produces gas that inflates and flexes the robot's arms.
We then used the ROV robot arms to grab the sensor string and then pull the sensors out of the hole.
Also, these arms are supported close to the robot's center of gravity, providing the robot with a high degree of stability.
Additionally, since each coaxially - arranged arm rotates at 360 degrees, there is no distinction between right and left hands, which allows the user to freely change the layout of the robot's hands.
Cleaning up some of the world's worst hotspots is not a job for humans; reports on the robots built to deal with the legacy of the nuclear arms race
But if the camera is mounted on a robot arm, he added, the geometry of the arm will constrain how it can move.
They programmed the robot arm to move towards a point in mid-air already occupied by a volunteer's outstretched forearm, so the robot would push the human out of the way.
Each volunteer was struck 18 times at different impact energies, with the robot arm fitted with one of two tools — one blunt and round, and one sharper.
The lander was armed with a robot arm to burrow into the soil, a laser to analyse the atmosphere and oodles of other high - tech gadgets to analyse the past and present Martian climate and help unravel the planet's ancient history.
Choset is one of the inventors of Cardio Arm, a foot - long serpentine robot designed to assist in cardiac surgery.
For instance, Miguel Nicolelis of Duke University and his colleagues put electrodes in the brains of monkeys to link them to a robot arm.
Then Fobos - Grunt will extend a robot arm and start collecting samples of regolith — surface soil and rocks — for return to Earth.
Miguel Nicolelis of Duke University and his colleagues wired the brains of owl monkeys to mechanical arms such that the animals» thoughts controlled the robots» actions.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, an arm of the U.S. Department of Defense, is exploring how to endow robots and other military equipment with the self - sufficiency to function independently amid the explosions and changing landscapes of a war zone.
The robotic arm is capable of grasping the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), i.e., the flying robot, while it is airborne and placing it on the charger for the ground robot.
It's a marriage of two technologies, one that uses bursts of light to turn on genes, and one that enables people to control external devices, such as computer cursors or robot arms, with their minds using «brain - computer interfaces.»
The first known case of robot homicide occurred in 1981, when a robotic arm crushed a Japanese Kawasaki factory worker.
The best you're going to do there is Luna, a human - size «robot» that will soon be widely available from a company called RoboDynamics in Santa Monica, California, for $ 3,000 — incredibly cheap for a humanoid, but incredibly expensive for a device that can't do much more than try not to bump into furniture and senior citizens as it desultorily wheels itself around your home, toting a tray of drinks you've carefully placed on its precarious, pipe - like «arms
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